OCLC Training

Make the most of your OCLC products and services with instruction from OCLC and OCLC-certified Training Partners.

Find the training you need

We make it easy for you to find courses, online tutorials, and other resources that are available to meet your learning needs.

As part of our commitment to keeping library costs down, online instructor-led training and tutorials for our products are provided to our members free of charge. We also work with training partners around the country to bring additional valuable training to you at reasonable prices.

OCLC offers many options to obtain the skills and knowledge you need to accomplish your mission. From live-online webinars, to Web-based tutorials and demonstrations, you can choose the easiest type of training and education for you.

Are you up to speed on RDA?

As the Library of Congress has moved to implement RDA, the effects of this change are impacting the library community. OCLC and its partners are working to keep you informed and give you the knowledge you need to understand and use this new standard.

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Migrating from FirstSearch? Not sure what to do?

WorldCat® Discovery Services is a new suite of cloud-based applications that brings the FirstSearch® and WorldCat® Local services together. The new suite enables people to discover more than 1.5 billion electronic, digital and physical resources in libraries around the world through a single search of both WorldCat® and a central index that represents more than 2,000 e-content collections.

WorldCat Discovery is available to all current FirstSearch subscribers as part of existing subscriptions.

You can access the training you need to use the new system, including tutorials, recorded classes, and the current instructor-led training schedule on ourWorldCat Discovery Services training page

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